Ye must all be alike
Catherine Gallagher, 27 January 1994
Writing Women in Jacobean England
by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski.
Harvard, 431 pp., £35.95, February 1993,0 674 96242 7 Show More
by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski.
Harvard, 431 pp., £35.95, February 1993,
“... important courtiers and patrons of the period, using her paternal family connections to promote John Donne, among others, and participating in literary exchanges with her clients. The cultural prestige of these ladies in turn inspired Aemelia Lanyer, a commoner, to seek their patronage for her own poetry, which celebrated women’s virtues. Another ... ”